Exciting new book and DVD titles arrive at Newton Public Library almost every week. Here are a few that are being processed and will hit our shelves soon. Click the titles to be linked directly to their entries in our online catalog, where you can see availability and/or place a hold. You can also stop…
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From the City of Newton: In two community meetings held last week at the Newton Public Library, attendees said the Newton Public Library’s current location in Military Park is their top site for a proposed new library. The City-owned property at 320 N. Main (the old south Dillons) was the second choice. In both meetings,…
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Exciting new book and DVD titles arrive at Newton Public Library almost every week. Here are a few that will be hitting our shelves soon. Visit our online catalog, stop in, or give us a call at 316-283-2890 to check availability or place a hold!
Here are a few of the newest items available at Newton Public Library. Visit our online catalog, stop in, or give us a call at 316-283-2890 to check availability or place a hold!
On June 1, Sean Tomlinson said goodbye to his family and hit the open road. He spent the next 10 days driving around the American Southwest, taking photos of some of the world’s most striking scenery. In “A Photo Trip to the Desert,” 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, at the Newton Public Library, Tomlinson will…
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In 1919, John Schroeder and his four older sisters, all orphans, boarded a train in Pennsylvania. When the siblings disembarked at the station in Newton, they were at the start of new, uncertain lives. They were among more than 200,000 orphaned children who rode the rails to escape crowded cities on the East Coast, hoping…
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Newton neighbors have been checking these books out at the public library. Stop in or use our online catalog to check availability and place holds!
The Rooster Bar by John Grisham The Fallen by David Baldacci Camino Island by John Grisham Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci The Disappeared by C. J. Box Killing Season: a Thriller by Faye Kellerman The People vs. Alex Cross by James Patterson Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney The Chemist…
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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through The Strange (And Impossibly Small) World Of Particle Physics, by Jon Butterworth Review by Steve Richards Atom Land offers expeditions of discovery, challenging both imagination and physical sense of reality. Author Jon Butterworth is a professor of physics and astronomy. In the strange and counterintuitive territories of particle physics,…
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Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann How to Get Sh*t Done: Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything so They Can Achieve Anything by Erin Falconer Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island…
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